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Each Year the National Youth Sports Program hosts up to 500 underprivileged youths at sports camps at USF’s Tampa Campus. Each of these students needs a sports physical to attend, yet many do not receive regular medical care.

Today this annual event is supported at the College of Nursing facilities by a full compliment of Nursing faculty as well as both undergraduate and graduate nursing students, and other volunteers. This important community endeavor has been fully integrated into the course curriculum and is now a model of community service within the Nursing Profession.

Over several years the College and NYSP staff have developed a plan which allows the 500+ physicals to be performed over three Saturdays, while ensuring a pleasant experience for the families, excellent medical care for the clients, and at the same time providing a quality learning and practice environment for the Nursing students.

The College of Nursing undergraduate non-licensed students, in conjunction with the Florida Nursing Student Association and Prevent Blindness Florida, have been conducting amblyopia screenings to pre-school age children in an effort to identify and refer children with potential vision problems to an eye care professional.

These amblyopia screenings are a part of a state-wide program known as “Childhood Amblyopia Prevention Screening” (CAPS).

The nursing students that participate in CAPS have been trained to identify children that are at high risk or in need of a professional eye examination.